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Official release March 2023
By Casimir Pellissier BTTF, Back to the future, Robin, Aircraft, Travel Diary,, Official release Mar 15, 2023
Official release February 2023
By Casimir Pellissier Official release Feb 23, 2023
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Dear flying friends, After almost a year counting the days, we’ve come to think we’ve earned ourselves the right to dream a bit. The first edition of the Robin Calendar Photo Contest was such a success that we decided to reiterate and enjoy once again a constellation of your most inspired shots. The third edition[…]
Back to the Future #3
By Casimir Pellissier back to the future - travel diary Apr 29, 2021
Travel diary of a made-in-France-entrepreneur. Log entry #3 : april 29th, 2021 When I was told that our application to the French Economic Recovery Plan convinced the Minister to sustain our development for the next few years, I must say it sounded unreal. After all, Robin Aircraft has always been a human-sized company,[…]
Presidential detour
By NoPe News Mar 05, 2021
Darois a l’habitude des présidents. Mais ils n’avaient jusque là jamais été de la République. Prouvant que le protocole ne peut pas toujours résister au plaisir de l’improvisation, Emmanuel Macron nous a fait le très grand honneur d’un détour par Darois pour venir vérifier lui-même que Robin Aircraft était bel et bien cette forte tête de[…]
The CAP is set
By NoPe News Jan 13, 2021
The CAP10’s comeback doesn’t just make us happy. The French naval air force decided to renew its trust in Robin as for the manufacturing of training-aircrafts for its pilots. Good habits also die hard, for many French military pilots of the last forty years were trained on our planes. Alain Ruelloux, our very own Air[…]
Nobody knows Norbert, but everybody knows Nono. It’s been this way since 1978. In 2020, the wood workshop is home to him. More than that, he’s « part of the home furniture » as we say in french, meaning that at some point you don’t even notice anymore what’s most vital to a place because it’s always[…]
The Robin Saga #3 bis – The wood workshop
By NoPe Get to know More, News, Reportage, Wood, woodwork, carpenter, craftsmanship, wing, fuselage, generations, tradition, know-how, savoir-faire, technique Jan 13, 2021
This is where it all begun. Back then, there was just dirt, weeds, a few trees and a few farms, sprinkled along one single road, connecting Dijon to Troyes, passing by the great nothing that was Darois. So here we are. Right where was built, in 1957, this half-barrel-shaped hangar that was meant to harbour[…]
If you’re tired of solid ground, if you’re grasping for air, if you’re running around the living room with your arms spread, howling zooooooooooooom on occasions, well if you’re missing your Robin anyway, remember the latest version of the DR401 confirms its popularity year in, year out, on Microsoft’s Flight Simulator. The latest version is[…]
Back to the Future. #2
By Casimir Pellissier Back to the Future - a travel diary Dec 10, 2020
Travel diary of a made-in-France-entrepreneur. Log entry #2: 10th of december 2020 I was just about to take a moment to look back at the last three years and appreciate the formidable productivity thrust that took place in the workshops within that period… I was actually just about to look back at what’s[…]
Back to the Future. #1
By Casimir Pellissier Back to the Future - a travel diary Oct 29, 2020
Travel diary of a made-in-France-entrepreneur. Log entry #1: 29th of october 2020 It is commonly said that Robin Aircraft peaked in the seventies. But I believe this is actually beside the point. The point is not peaking but lasting. An adventure like this one is not about the summit but about the journey itself.[…]
First order placed for DR401 170CDI
By Casimir Pellissier BTTF, Back to the future, Robin, Aircraft, Travel Diary, Oct 15, 2020
The CD170 Continental has found its match, and its match is a DR401, and this DR401 has found its happy first owner. This remarkable tug should be the star of our booth at Aero2021 Friedrichshafen. The performance measurement flights will take place as soon as temperatures go up. Certification will follow by summer. Offering a[…]
Robin Heads #2 – JULY 2020
By NoPe Reportage, Wood, woodwork, carpenter, craftsmanship, wing, fuselage, generations, tradition, know-how, savoir-faire, technique Jul 17, 2020
Alain Ruelloux: as good as new What do a Mirage IV fighter jet and a DR 401 have in common? Well, to us, it appears they have Alain Ruelloux. And to Alain Ruelloux, they have everything in common above thirty feet in the air. The danger is the same, only the speed differs. The man[…]
Robin’s Saga episode #7 – The Metal Workshop
By NoPe Reportage, Wood, woodwork, carpenter, craftsmanship, wing, fuselage, generations, tradition, know-how, savoir-faire, technique Jul 17, 2020
Someone rings the handbell in the workshops. New order coming in! A new plane is soon going be emerging, piece by piece, from every workbench. The order passes through the fine sieve of the IT system. Printers are already warm. The manufacturing orders – « OF’s » for « Ordre de Fabrication » – are now sprinkling all over[…]
Airplanes confined to their hangars, no way to get high these days, we all have to fly under the radar. But life cannot stop all at once, the order book keeps getting full and Robin has to honor its reputation and adapt. Drastic sanitary measures will be reinforced at the Darois workshops in order to[…]
Diversification Bucket-seats in Oregon Pine, landing-gear-box-table, hamac structure made out of DR401 wing spar, large garden umbrella mounted with ribs and wingtips: to brighten up your confinement zone, Robin redirects its activities towards garden furniture. Hurry: the deckchair Wing spar is a limited edition! Connect Here to our online shop. And a happy April fool’s[…]
Robin is grieving one of its very own, very loved and very unique Robinite. The deepest sorrow struck the Darois workshops when we heard the terrible news. Our very dear Joël Thomas took off and left us on march 10th, struck down by a sudden leukemia. It left all of us speechless, sans voix as[…]
Santa has gone crazy
By Casimir Pellissier News Feb 21, 2020
This year, Santa didn’t just spoil the children. He must have had room left in his sack for he managed to squeeze sixteen new planes in it before Christmas. Sixteen toys, all in the shape of a DR401, that will enchant pilots all around the clubs. The elves of Darois will be building these presents[…]
Official Robin Aircraft 2020 Calendar
By Casimir Pellissier News Feb 21, 2020
No more Pirelli calendars. We’d rather see some other kind of curves. Each of every twelve month of the year, take a loving look at a Robin and its pilot on cloud nine. The 2020 calendar is available online, along with the new Robin technical jackets. Both are good ways to keep yourself warm this[…]
Now more than ever, Robin makes the French heritage a lively one. And it is France itself that’s actually saying it. The Ministry of economics has awarded the company’s unfailing fidelity to its native land, with the famous EPV label that only over a thousand companies can brag about in the country. Robin is very[…]
Robin Heads #1 – February 2020
By NoPe BTTF, Back to the future, Robin, Aircraft, Travel Diary, Feb 21, 2020
Joël Thomas A bit of wood and steel on the way in, a plane on the way out. Robin transcends matter as it does with men. With no experience or diploma on his way in, living encyclopedia on his way out: out of his fifty years of service at Robin, Joël got a lot and[…]
Saga Robin – Episode #6 – French Maroquinerie (Upholstery)
By Casimir Pellissier Get to know More Feb 21, 2020
At the bottom of the Darois assembly workshops, we can smell leather. There’s actually every colors, kinds and sizes of leather. The wide refined cow skins share space with all kinds of mosses, stuffs, metal structures, sewing threads and patterns to straighten all this out. For most of us, it would look like a mess.[…]
PHOTO CONTEST – Robin Aircraft 2020 Calendar
By Casimir Pellissier Get to know More Oct 01, 2019
Pilot friends and aviation enthusiasts, The year 2019 ends gradually on an Indian summer, conducive to beautiful rides by plane. The landscape is transformed to give way to the colors of autumn and winter. To extend this aeronautical year, we invite you to send us your best pictures to welcome the year 2020 with the[…]
Press release Robin Aircraft
By Casimir Pellissier Jul 12, 2017
An engine stop during take-off has occurred on June 22nd 2017 with a just delivered DR401 / 155. The cause has been quickly identified by our teams. No other aircraft in the fleet in service is concerned. The BEA (Bureau for Inquiries and Analysis) will issue a complete report. Robin Aircraft, in Darois, July the[…]
#WHICH_IS_THE_BEST : DR401-155CDI or competition ?
By Casimir Pellissier News Apr 24, 2017
The following presentation is objective : every figure has been carefully taken from Flight manuals and from data issued by manufacturers. The objective is to give a transparent comparison between DR401-155CDI and its competitors. Results speak for themselves… What would be your choice and why ? Feel free to #comment the topic! Thanks for reading us.